There is
trend with law companies specializing in the capitalization of the Internet. They start off like NGO type organizations
using the public spaces like debate sections in newspapers to sow their seeds
with the intent to be seen like institutions of the society protecting the individual
and thus gain legitimacy. Their business idea is “helping” individuals that got
slandered on the Internet or having their participation in sex acts published in
pictures and videos for a variety of reasons among them something labeled “revenge
porn”. This is new business niche for lawyer’s especially creative young ones
with the intent to become rich on slander cases related to the Internet and its
social Medias
The
Internet is already a dangerous place apart from sexual predators and all sort
con-businesses; we have the Internet police formed out of national sections of
the police-forces and the more international ones like the FBI, the Scotland Yard
and others. The Internet police have
started to deploy under-cover tactics meaning infiltrating and listening to
social Medias, planting decoys with the intent to lure pedophiles and other
sexual predators into the trap. One cannot today engage in a new Internet
friend-ship without asking oneself “is it worth the risk” as the person you are
interested in may provoke you to enter into very dangerous domains and then end
up in jail because of a mistake. This is the reality of the Internet today and
a part of a 1984 Orwellian scenario.
This is not
the end of it all as the more lucrative side mentioned in the first paragraph
is trying to open up to impose restrictions on what could or what could not be
said on the Internet. Strong lobbying from this emerging Internet law companies
towards state legislation is happening right now to force legislators to change
and amend current law frameworks to their favor. This is not about protecting
individuals from Internet abuse but to create revenue from law-suites
associated to slander on social Medias. The consequences are that free speech
and the creative gains from universal connectivity and communications will be
gone forever if we let this happen.
Consider that the few that suffer from being slandered on the Internet
is marginal. The majority of us are out there for good causes, to benefit society
and the planet. Don’t let the henchmen of law for greed destroy what has been achieved
so far.
In Sweden
one of those companies has taken on the name: The institute for law &
Internet which in native Swedish translates to “Institutet för Juridik &
Internet”. It sounds pro society but is
nothing than pro greed.
